harp

[Harp]

A harp is a large, stringed musical instrument with a beautiful sound. If you want to play an instrument that's portable, you should choose a ukulele instead of a harp.

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A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

Noun
a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

Noun
a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

Noun
a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

Verb
come back to; "Don''t dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things"

Verb
play the harp; "She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully"

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n.
A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

n.
A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.

n.
A grain sieve.

n.
To play on the harp.

n.
To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon.

v. t.
To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

Harp

Harp , n. [OE. harpe, AS. hearpe; akin to D. harp, G.harfe, OHG. harpha, Dan. harpe, Icel. & Sw. harpa.] 1. A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers. 2. (Astron.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre. 3. A grain sieve. [Scot.] '92olian harp. See under '92olian. Harp seal (Zo'94l.), an arctic seal (Phoca Gr'd2nlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones are called bluesides. -- Harp shell (Zo'94l.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.

Harp

Harp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harped p. pr. & vb. n. Harping.] [AS. hearpian. See Harp, n.] 1. To play on the harp.
I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps.
2. To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon. "Harpings upon old themes." W. Irving.
Harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was.
To harp on one string, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence. [Collog.]

Harp

Harp, v. t. To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
Thou 'harped my fear aright.

A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

To play on the harp.

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

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